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Nonequilibrium fluctuations in small systems: From physics to biology (2006)
| Venue: | Advances in Chemical Physics |
| Citations: | 19 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ritort06nonequilibriumfluctuations,
author = {F Ritort},
title = {Nonequilibrium fluctuations in small systems: From physics to biology},
booktitle = {Advances in Chemical Physics},
year = {2006}
}
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Abstract
In this paper I am presenting an overview on several topics related to nonequilibrium fluctuations in small systems. I start with a general discussion about fluctuation theorems and applications to physical examples extracted from physics and biology: a bead in an optical trap and single molecule force experiments. Next I present a general discussion on path thermodynamics and consider distributions of work/heat fluctuations as large deviation functions. Then I address the topic of glassy dynamics from the perspective of nonequilibrium fluctuations due to small cooperatively rearranging regions. Finally, I
